Snowden Critics: How Did Russia Get So Good at Evading U.S. Surveillance, Exactly?
So Russia got suddenly good at evading U.S. surveillance efforts, as the Wall Street Journal reported this morning, allowing them to get the jump on American intelligence agencies and just kinda show up in Crimea one day. Which has led some to wonder if there was a particular event that might have allowed them to so suddenly evade those U.S. surveillance efforts:
I'm sure it's just a coincidence that Russia is suddenly able to evade US SIGINT, and it has nothing to do with the defector they just got.
— joshuafoust (@joshuafoust) March 24, 2014
G.Greenwald said Snowden had the "blueprint" to US SIGINT, but it's totally a coincidence that Moscow can suddenly avoid NSA taps.
— joshuafoust (@joshuafoust) March 24, 2014
Because, as he and Snowden's many cultists insist, there's no *direct evidence* he gave anything to Russia and he pinky swears he didn't.
— joshuafoust (@joshuafoust) March 24, 2014
More indications US SIGINT is suddenly deaf on Russia…remind me again how that could have happened. http://t.co/xnbnkxSsfQ
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 24, 2014
If you want "proof" Snowden is collaborating with Russian intel you'll need to file your FOIA with the Kremlin. They're not quick, FYI.
— John Schindler (@20committee) March 24, 2014
As Business Insider’s Michael Kelly points out, Glenn Greenwald told Associated Press that Snowden “is in possession of literally thousands of documents…that would allow somebody who read them to know exactly how the NSA does what it does, which would in turn allow them to evade that surveillance or replicate it.”
Snowden has said he handed over all of the classified information he took from the National Security Agency to reporters.
[h/t Business Insider]
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